CSC350: Learning Management Systems COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (Virtual Campus)

Lecture # 22 Moodle …. Modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment 2

Review of the Previous Lecture Creating a new Course Getting Started Editing Adding Blocks Managing Course Adding Resources Adding Activities 3

Topics of Discussion The Topics Follow: 4

Assignments Assignments are used when you want your students to hand in some work through Moodle (except the offline activity assignment type). When the work has been submitted you can mark it and give feedback in Moodle. Marks are stored in the course gradebook. There are four types of assignment. Your choice of ‘assignment type’ depends on what you want your students to do. 5

Assignments: Online text Students type into a box in Moodle – they have the Moodle WYSIWYG editor and can therefore use the tools included; linking to websites, displaying images, etc. 6

Assignments: Upload a single file Students have to upload a file. The teacher determines the maximum file upload size when setting the assignment. 7

Assignments: Advanced uploading of files The teacher can allow more than one file to be uploaded. With this assignment type students can delete work already uploaded and resubmit work. Therefore this assignment type is particularly useful if you want your students to submit a draft copy which you can feed back on before it is improved by the student and re-submitted. Once the final version has been uploaded, students can click ‘send for marking’. 8

Steps for setting up an assignment The teacher can allow more than one file to be uploaded. With this assignment type students can delete work already uploaded and resubmit work. Therefore this assignment type is particularly useful if you want your students to submit a draft copy which you can feed back on before it is improved by the student and re-submitted. Once the final version has been uploaded, students can click ‘send for marking’. 9

General Settings (common to all assignment types) With editing turned on in your course, go to the section where you would like the assignment to appear and click ‘add an activity...’ Choose the desired activity type Give the assignment a name (this becomes a link that your students will click on) In the description box give your students the instructions they need to complete the task. 10

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Adding a New Assignment 12 Determine how you want to mark the task using the ‘grade’ drop down menu. Decide whether you want to limit when your students can start submitting their work to you. You can also set when it’s due to be handed in or disable this functionality altogether (using the tick boxes). Decide whether you are going to let students submit work late or not using the ‘prevent late submissions’ setting (if you chose to use a due date in the first place). [The next section of settings is specific to the assignment type you chose].

Online text Allow resubmitting: If ‘yes’ students can resubmit their work. If ‘No’ and a student submit work by accident and there’s no way back. 13

Online text alerts to teachers: If Moodle knows your address and you choose yes you will receive an each time a student submits work to you. 14

Online text Comment inline: If ‘yes’ you will be able to type in amongst the text that your student submits. Choose ‘No’ and your feedback is kept separate. 15

Advanced uploading of files Maximum Size: Choose the maximum file size for any single file uploaded by the students. Allow deleting: Can a student delete a submitted file or not? 16

Advanced uploading of files Maximum number of uploaded files: Decide how many files should be submitted for the task. Allow notes: Do you want to provide your students with a place to write some notes, e.g. to explain which file is which. 17

Advanced uploading of files Hide description before available date: If you choose to do this, the task instructions will be hidden and replaced by: ‘Sorry, this assignment is not yet available. Assignment instructions will be displayed here on the date given below.’ 18

Advanced uploading of files alerts to teachers: If Moodle knows your address and you choose yes you will receive an each time a student submits work to you. Enable Send for marking: If you choose yes the student clicks a button which says ‘Send for marking’ when they are uploaded the finished files. If no, the work appears as submitted as soon as a file has been uploaded by the student. 19

Marking Assignments When students submit work you can access it by clicking on the assignment and following the link in the top right hand corner which says ‘View submitted assignments’ or ‘No attempts have been made on this assignment’. This link takes you to a list of students enrolled on the course. 20

Marking Assignments.. When you are ready to start grading there are two options. The procedure is same for both: 1. Give a grade and some feedback, 2. Decide whether you want the student to receive an telling them you’ve marked their work 3. Move to the next student. 21

Marking Assignments.. Which of the grading options you use is up to you. Depending on what you are marking, you may prefer one over the other: Default grading: 1. Click ‘Grade’ in the status column for the first student, this brings up a new window 2. Give a grade and fill in the feedback 3. Click ‘save and show next’ to see the next student 22

Quick grading: 1. Input the grade and a comment directly onto the page where you can see a list of all the students. 2. Quick grading will not allow you to provide feedback within the text of an online text assignment. However, quick grading is probably preferable when inputting grades and feedback for uploaded files or offline activities. 3. To switch quick grading on you tick the box ‘Allow quick grading’ (bottom right) and then click ‘Save preferences’. 23

Quick grading: 3. To switch quick grading on you tick the box ‘Allow quick grading’ (bottom right) and then click ‘Save preferences’. 24

Allow resubmitting: If ‘yes’ students can resubmit their work. If ‘No’ and a student submit work by accident and there’s no way back. 25 Upload a single file

alerts to teachers: This is the same as in the other assignment types above. If Moodle knows your address and you choose yes you will receive an each time a student submits work to you. 26 Upload a single file

Maximum size: Same as in advanced uploading of files. Choose the maximum file sizes for the file students upload. 27 Upload a single file

Thank You 28